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School of Archaeology and Anthropology · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course will serve as an introduction to the prehistory of Europe from the first farming communities to the Roman era from the Balkans to Britain, and Norway to the Iberian Peninsula. From 8000 BC to the 1st century AD people on the European continent developed new technologies, adopted unique ways of life and built the monuments which fill our TV screens. This course asks who they were and how they did it.
Two Guided tutorial discussion, 5% (each)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4
Big Question Research proposal (ca 1000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4
Annotated Bibliography of 15 sources (ca. 1500 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4
Big Question podcast (15 minutes)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Podcast reflection (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of workshop and workshop-like activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing
Cunliffe, B.W. 2008. Europe between the oceans: themes and variations: 9000 BC to AD 1000. New Haven: Yale University Press. Cunliffe, B.W. 2017. By steppe, desert, and ocean: the birth of Eurasia. Oxford: Oxford University Press,. Milisauskas, S. ed. 2002. European prehistory: a survey. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.